CANTHARIS
Source indications
Allen's Keynotes
- oversensitiveness of all parts
- haemorrhages from nose, mouth, intestines, genital and urinary organs
- pain; raw, sore, burning in every part of the body, internally and externally; with extreme weakness
- disgust for everything; drink, food, tabacco
- drinking even small quantities of water increases pain in the bladder
- constant urging to urinate, passing but a few drops at the time, which is mixed with blood
- intolerable urging, before, during and after urination; violent pains in bladder
- burning, cutting pains in urethra during micturition; violent tenesmus and strangury
- stool: passage of white or pale, red, tough mucus, like scrapings from the intestines, with streaks of blood
- bloody, nocturnal emission
- sexual desire: increased both sexes; preventing sleep; violent priapism, with excessive pain
- tenacious mucus in the air passages
- skin: vesicular erysipelas; vesicles all over body which are sore and suppurating
- erythema from exposure to sun's rays